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Right, just to whet your appetite a bit further ahead of tomorrow’s Round 3A qualifier clash with Clare there’s another episode of the Mayo News football podcast to listen to. Do these lads ever go home, I hear you ask. In this bonus episode, host Rob Murphy and I chat about tomorrow’s match while there are special guest appearances from […]

A bit later than usual this week but the new espisode of the Mayo News football podcast is worth the wait. The delay is all the fault of the qualifiers because, with the Round 3A draw coming hot on the heels of the win over Derry, it made sense to wait for that to facilitate the inclusion in this episode […]

Photo: MichaelMaye.com The GAA have now confirmed fixture details for our Round 3A qualifier meeting with Clare. The match will take place at Cusack Park in Ennis next Saturday (8th July) and throw-in has been set for 5pm that evening. As most of you know, Cusack Park is a small enough ground, with capacity no higher than 15,000. Tickets for […]

Another big championship match involving the county tomorrow and so this definitely calls for a Mayo News football podcast bonus episode. In this one, host Rob Murphy and I help to set the scene for tomorrow’s crunch qualifier tie against Derry while Billy Joe Padden provides his thoughts on how Mayo might line out and what they need to do to […]

Monday lunchtime before (or, indeed, after) a big championship match involving us: that can mean only one thing. Yes, folks, it’s Mayo News football podcast time once again and this edition drills into a number of issues relating to Saturday’s do-or-die Round 2A qualifier clash with Derry. A tactical switch sees me sit this one out but host Rob Murphy […]

The Gaelic football world is, understandably, all agog today at the brouhaha yesterday following Dublin’s evisceration of Westmeath in the kick-about formerly known as the Leinster football championship. Jim Gavin’s post-match outburst was hilarious at several levels – in particular the brazenly hypocritical one, given the filthy personal campaign that Dublin GAA proxies waged against Lee Keegan ahead of the […]

It’s Mayo News football podcast time again and this episode is another bumper one, all recorded at the Connacht championship semi-final between Galway and Mayo at Pearse Stadium yesterday afternoon. Host Rob Murphy and I take you through the game as it unfolds and Ger Flanagan of the Mayo News has post-game interviews with Stephen Rochford and Galway’s centre-back Gary […]

Lookit, I want to drop these on your lap as much as you want to read them but it’s part of the Monday morning routine after a game. Here goes, then, in relation to the coverage on yesterday’s one-point loss to Galway at Salthill. Locals: Mayo Advertiser, Connaught Telegraph (match report, primer on qualifier route now facing us). Nationals: Irish […]

Only two days to go to the big showdown in the west so it’s definitely worthwhile ladling out a second helping of the Mayo News football podcast for more chat ahead of the Galway game on Sunday. In this bonus episode, host Rob Murphy and I talk about Mayo’s team selection for the game as well as some other stuff […]

It’s the biggest football match in the championship this weekend – the meeting of Cavan and Monaghan is the only other one likely to approach it in terms of intensity or pulling power – but so far at least it’s a very low-key lead-in to Sunday’s Connacht semi-final meeting between ourselves and Galway at Pearse Stadium (throw-in 4pm). I guess […]